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In an interview released Thursday, Tucker Carlson urged President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to release an American Wall Street Journal reporter who has been held in a notorious Moscow prison for nearly a year.Mr. Carlson’s appeal on behalf of the journalist, Evan Gershkovich, was only the second time Mr. Putin has directly addressed a case that has galvanized press freedom groups and strained diplomatic relations with the United States.Large parts of the two-hour interview were taken up by Mr Putin recounting hundreds of years of Russian history. But in the final minutes, Mr. Carlson asked, “as a sign of…

Brooke Ellison, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a childhood car accident, went on to graduate from Harvard and become a professor and dedicated disability rights activist, died Sunday in Stony Brook, New York, at the age of 45.Her death, at a hospital, was caused by complications of quadriplegia, said her mother, Jean Ellison.As an 11-year-old, Brooke had taken karate, soccer, cello and dance lessons and sang in a church choir. But on September 4, 1990, she was hit by a car while running on a road near her Long Island home in Rockville Centre, Nassau County. Her…

A man knelt down and kissed the carpet with the ship’s logo. Another picked up his wife and spun her around, ecstatic to be among the approximately 5,000 passengers to board the inaugural voyage of the world’s largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas.For months, the 250,800-tonne ship, which can carry nearly 8,000 people, has made headlines – including some who criticized its size and potential to damage the environment. But passengers who plunked down $1,800 to $100,000 and boarded the ship in Port Miami, Florida on Jan. 27 said nothing could have prepared them for the sheer scale…

President Biden sharply escalated his criticism of Israel’s approach to the war against Hamas on Thursday, calling the military operations in Gaza “over the top” and saying the suffering of innocent people “must stop.”Mr. Biden, who has strongly supported Israel’s right to respond to the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack that killed an estimated 1,200 people, expressed growing impatience with the scale and duration of Israel’s response during an overnight meeting with reporters at the White House.”I am of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, was excessive,” Mr. Biden…

The history of Las Vegas has been marked by an inexorable turnover of hotels, casinos, theaters and restaurants. But only recently has the city’s landscape included major professional sports teams.The Golden Knights of the National Hockey League were the first to start playing here in 2017. The Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Association started in 2018 and the Raiders of the National Football League arrived from Oakland in 2020. Last year, Major League Baseball’s The Athletics were given the green light to make the same move from Oakland to Las Vegas, and the National Basketball Association is expected to…

Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is stepping down at the end of the month after a two-plus year stint at the helm of the pop culture bible.In a brief memo to employees seen by The New York Times, Mr. Shachtman said his last day running the magazine would be March 1, but did not elaborate on the reasons for his departure.His resignation was prompted by editorial differences with Gus Wehner, Rolling Stone’s chief executive, according to a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.”It’s the right decision Gus Wenner and I made after many discussions…

While the push for products like Lovense and WeVibe, another popular brand of remote-controlled vibrators and stimulation rings, may seem self-evident — to create pleasure — many of the latest sex technologies often have a higher goal. Make Love Not Porn, a user-generated social sex platform, aims to eliminate the unrealistic standards created by hard porn by showing unrehearsed, consensual, “real world” sex, said Cindy Gallop, company founder and veteran sex educatorMeanwhile, products like the VDOM, a wearable genital prosthesis that can be turned from flaccid to erect with the help of a smartphone app, are aimed less at fetishists…

Tesla technicians who quit their jobs in Sweden say they still support the US company’s mission and its top CEO. But they also want Tesla to embrace the Swedish way of doing business.They call it the Swedish Model, a way of life that has defined the country’s economy for decades. At its heart is the partnership between employers and employees to ensure that both sides benefit from a company’s profits.Instead, four technicians who walked off the job on Oct. 27 said they have been subjected to what they described as the “typical U.S. model”: six-day work weeks, inevitable overtime and…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday revised its guidelines for monitoring the genetic signatures of viruses collected from people newly diagnosed with HIV, a controversial practice used by state and local health agencies to contain infections.The updated policy encouraged health officials to be more transparent with their communities about the monitoring, one of several changes sought by HIV advocacy groups concerned about how so-called molecular surveillance could violate privacy and political patients’ rights.But the agency did not adopt more significant changes that some advocates had pushed for, such as allowing health services to opt out in states…

While Rome’s charms may be, as they say, eternal, it has never been a city particularly prized for its hotels. Until recently, luxury accommodation in the Italian capital usually meant a flamboyantly decorated stack meant to evoke the city’s 16th- and 17th-century palaces, replete with gilded furniture and vague nostalgia. Over the past year or so, a whole new breed of luxury hotel has emerged, paying homage to the modernist architects who rebuilt much of Rome in a rationalist style in the early to mid-20th century. The Bulgari Hotel, for example, opened last summer in a massive 1930s government building…